Here's the score: Players will say one thing, but think something else. I mean, everything in sports is PR these days, and it's why I rarely, if ever, take what someone's saying at face value.
Because we don't know what they're thinking, for the most part anyway. Some, like former Chicago Blackhawks defenseman Seth Jones, is an outlier, since he said exactly what was on his mind last season. And he ended up finishing the year in Sunrise, Florida, where he helped the Panthers win a Stanley Cup. Or, their second Cup in as many seasons.
But you won't get as many Seth Jones-like comments from everyone.